We collect and use that information in order to authenticate you when you register an account and use the Services, to make sure you are eligible and able to receive the Services, and so that you receive the correct version of the Services.

That information includes the in-game username you choose to use on our Services, and internal account IDs that we assign to your account.

You must have an account with a supported third party single sign-on service to use our Services. As such, the Personal Data we collect also depends on which third party accounts you choose to use, their privacy policy, and what your privacy settings with those services allow us to see when you use their services to access Niantic Services.

If you choose to link your Google account to the Services, we will collect your Google email address and an authentication token provided by Google.

If you choose to link your Facebook account to the Services, we will collect a unique user ID provided by Facebook and, if permitted by you, your Facebook registered email address.

Depending on the particular Service you sign up for, we may support other third party single sign-on services and collect additional Personal Data from them.

Some third-party providers may notify you that they make additional information, such as your public profile, available to us when you use their single sign-on services.

We do not collect that information from them. We collect and use your device location information as you use our Services and, if you elect to turn on background location tracking for our Services, while you are not directly interacting with the Services , including how you move around and events that occur during gameplay.

We also collect and use your in-game actions and achievements, as well as certain information about your mobile device including device identifiers, device OS, model, configuration, settings and information about third party applications or software installed on your device , to operate the Services for you and to ensure that we provide a fair gaming experience to all players in accordance with our Terms of Service which includes anti-fraud and anti-cheating measures against behaviors prohibited under our Terms of Service.

We also use the information above to show in-game sponsored locations that are in your vicinity as part of the gameplay experience.

You also give us Personal Data when you make a purchase through us, subscribe to our publications, register for a live event, enter a competition, promotion, sweepstakes or survey or communicate with us.

Depending on which of these Services you use, that may include your name, mailing address, phone number, country of residency, date of birth as needed to verify eligibility , and email address.

We use that information to fulfil those Services to you and to provide related customer support to you. Using your IP address, browser type, operating system, the web page you were visiting before accessing our Services, the pages of our Services which you browsed or the features you used, and the time spent on those pages or features, the links on our Services that you click on, device identifiers, as well as actions you take during gameplay, your in-game user settings and preferences and your in-app purchases to understand who is using our Services and how.

Using your contact information, namely your email address in order to communicate with you to provide technical and customer support. Using your internal account ID in order to attribute to your account any user content such as local points of interest that you elect to submit to Niantic through the Services.

Using your email address and device information in order to share updates and news about the Services with you either within the games or by email.

You can unsubscribe from these at any time in your device settings or in-app settings. To provide social features within our games so you can interact and play with other players, including storing your communications with those players, find your friends and be found by them, and share your gameplay experience and achievements with your friends.

To organize and run live events based on or featuring our games. Note that when you participate in live events your in-game actions and achievements, in-game username and your avatar, team, and other components of your in-game profile will be visible to other event participants and to the public for example on leaderboards displayed at the event and online.

To carry out anti-fraud and anti-cheating measures and to ensure that you and other users are complying with our Terms of Service.

This includes your device location and your fitness activity data such as Step Count, Calories Burned, and Distance Walked.

We use background activity tracking to provide you certain functionalities in the Services such as in-game items and rewards tied to your fitness activity level and alerts for nearby gameplay events.

You can change your mind and turn off background activity tracking at any time in your device settings or in-app settings.

We do not use data collected through Apple Health Kit or through Google Fit for marketing or advertising purposes.

You can change your mind and disable our access to any type of fitness activity data at any time in your Apple Health or Google Fit app settings on your device.

If you elect to enable the Facebook User Friends permission available in some of our games, we will import from your linked Facebook account the list of your friends who also play the game and enabled Facebook User Friends.

If you enable that permission, your Facebook profile picture and the name on your Facebook account will be visible to your friends in-game.

You can change your mind and unfriend other players at any time from your in-app Friends settings. You can also revoke Facebook permissions for our games directly from your Facebook account settings.

Send you marketing materials by email or via in-app notifications. We also rely on your consent where we use cookies or similar technologies.

Please see our Cookie Policy for more information about how we use them. Insofar as cookies collect Personal Data, we will process it only based on your explicit consent, in anonymized form, or under a pseudonym.

While you may disable the usage of cookies through your browser settings, Niantic currently does not respond to a "Do Not Track" signal in the HTTP header from your browser or mobile application due to the lack of industry standard on how to interpret that signal.

We will not share any Personal Data that we have collected from or regarding you except as described below:.

Information Shared with Our Services Providers. We engage third party service providers to work with us to administer and provide the Services.

As part of that they will process your Personal Data on our behalf. These third party service providers have access to your Personal Data only for the purpose of performing services on our behalf, in compliance with this Privacy Policy, and we make sure each one is contractually obliged not to disclose or use your Personal Data for any other purpose.

The service providers we use help us to:. Information Shared with Other Players. When you use the Services, and in particular when you play our games, use social features within those games, or take part in live events, we will share certain Personal Data with other players.

Information Shared with Third Parties. We share Anonymous Data with third parties for industry and market analysis.

We may share Personal Data with our third-party publishing partners for their direct marketing purposes only if we have your express permission.

We do not share Personal Data with any other third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with the law.

We only share information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties when we reasonably believe necessary or appropriate: Information Disclosed in Connection with Business Transactions.

Information that we collect from our users, including Personal Data, is a business asset. If we are acquired by a third party as a result of a transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale or if our assets are acquired by a third party in the event we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, some or all of our assets, including your Personal Data, will be disclosed or transferred to a third party acquirer in connection with the transaction.

Niantic operates its Services across the globe. Your Personal Data will very likely be transferred and stored in a country outside of your home country, including in the USA, for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

The data protection laws in these countries may not be the same as in your home country. If we transfer your Personal Data from the EEA to other countries, including the USA, we ensure that a similar degree of protection is provided to your Personal Data as within the EEA by ensuring that at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:.

The country that your Personal Data is transferred to is a country that the European Commission has deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for Personal Data as the EEA.

We use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give Personal Data the same protection as it has in Europe when we engage with service providers.

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, improperly altered or disclosed.

We also limit access to your Personal Data to employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.

They will only process your Personal Data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

We keep your Personal Data for as long as we need to provide the Services to you and fulfil the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with and who carry out services on our behalf.

When we no longer need to use your Personal Data and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or anonymize it so that it can no longer be associated with you.

You have certain rights in relation to your Personal Data. In order to exercise these rights, please contact us at:.

For all other Services at privacy nianticlabs. Helps prevent nervousness, too. Raises Special to make special attacks stronger and enhance protection against special moves.

A Normal -type move that raises Spcl. Normally used up to six times. R S E Colo. It boosts your Attack and Special Attack. Under a Sunny condition, your stats go up even higher.

The stat changes return to normal when you go to the next floor or step on a Wonder Tile. It boosts your Attack and Sp. When it's sunny, your stats go up even higher.

The user releases a green beam and gives its energy to others. Tangrowth holds out its hands and two light green orbs appear in front of them. Light green beams shoot from the orbs at the target, giving Tangrowth's energy to it.

The purple stem on Cherrim's head glows light green and it releases a light green beam from the stem at the target, giving its energy to it.

A light green orb forms above the gray stem on Seedot's head. It then fires a light green beam from the orb at the target, giving its energy to it.

Raises Special to make special attacks stronger and enhance protection against special moves. A Normal -type move that raises Spcl.

Normally used up to six times. R S E Colo. It boosts your Attack and Special Attack. Under a Sunny condition, your stats go up even higher. The stat changes return to normal when you go to the next floor or step on a Wonder Tile.

It boosts your Attack and Sp. When it's sunny, your stats go up even higher. The user releases a green beam and gives its energy to others. Tangrowth holds out its hands and two light green orbs appear in front of them.

Light green beams shoot from the orbs at the target, giving Tangrowth's energy to it. The purple stem on Cherrim's head glows light green and it releases a light green beam from the stem at the target, giving its energy to it.

A light green orb forms above the gray stem on Seedot's head. It then fires a light green beam from the orb at the target, giving its energy to it.

A light green orb forms above the hole on Shroomish's head, and it fires a light green beam from the orb at the target, giving its energy to it.

We use background activity tracking to provide you certain functionalities in the Services such as in-game items and rewards tied to your fitness activity level and alerts for nearby gameplay events.

You can change your mind and turn off background activity tracking at any time in your device settings or in-app settings. We do not use data collected through Apple Health Kit or through Google Fit for marketing or advertising purposes.

You can change your mind and disable our access to any type of fitness activity data at any time in your Apple Health or Google Fit app settings on your device.

If you elect to enable the Facebook User Friends permission available in some of our games, we will import from your linked Facebook account the list of your friends who also play the game and enabled Facebook User Friends.

If you enable that permission, your Facebook profile picture and the name on your Facebook account will be visible to your friends in-game.

You can change your mind and unfriend other players at any time from your in-app Friends settings. You can also revoke Facebook permissions for our games directly from your Facebook account settings.

Send you marketing materials by email or via in-app notifications. We also rely on your consent where we use cookies or similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information about how we use them.

Insofar as cookies collect Personal Data, we will process it only based on your explicit consent, in anonymized form, or under a pseudonym. While you may disable the usage of cookies through your browser settings, Niantic currently does not respond to a "Do Not Track" signal in the HTTP header from your browser or mobile application due to the lack of industry standard on how to interpret that signal.

We will not share any Personal Data that we have collected from or regarding you except as described below:.

Information Shared with Our Services Providers. We engage third party service providers to work with us to administer and provide the Services.

As part of that they will process your Personal Data on our behalf. These third party service providers have access to your Personal Data only for the purpose of performing services on our behalf, in compliance with this Privacy Policy, and we make sure each one is contractually obliged not to disclose or use your Personal Data for any other purpose.

The service providers we use help us to:. Information Shared with Other Players. When you use the Services, and in particular when you play our games, use social features within those games, or take part in live events, we will share certain Personal Data with other players.

Information Shared with Third Parties. We share Anonymous Data with third parties for industry and market analysis. We may share Personal Data with our third-party publishing partners for their direct marketing purposes only if we have your express permission.

We do not share Personal Data with any other third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with the law.

We only share information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties when we reasonably believe necessary or appropriate: Information Disclosed in Connection with Business Transactions.

Information that we collect from our users, including Personal Data, is a business asset. If we are acquired by a third party as a result of a transaction such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale or if our assets are acquired by a third party in the event we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, some or all of our assets, including your Personal Data, will be disclosed or transferred to a third party acquirer in connection with the transaction.

Niantic operates its Services across the globe. Your Personal Data will very likely be transferred and stored in a country outside of your home country, including in the USA, for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

The data protection laws in these countries may not be the same as in your home country. If we transfer your Personal Data from the EEA to other countries, including the USA, we ensure that a similar degree of protection is provided to your Personal Data as within the EEA by ensuring that at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:.

The country that your Personal Data is transferred to is a country that the European Commission has deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for Personal Data as the EEA.

We use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give Personal Data the same protection as it has in Europe when we engage with service providers.

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, improperly altered or disclosed.

We also limit access to your Personal Data to employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.

They will only process your Personal Data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected Personal Data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

We keep your Personal Data for as long as we need to provide the Services to you and fulfil the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with and who carry out services on our behalf.

When we no longer need to use your Personal Data and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or anonymize it so that it can no longer be associated with you.

You have certain rights in relation to your Personal Data. In order to exercise these rights, please contact us at:. For all other Services at privacy nianticlabs.

Some of the Personal Data we hold is necessary for us to provide the Services to you and fulfill the promises we make to you in the Terms of Service.

Ask us to stop using your Personal Data, including for marketing and promotional purposes but be aware that sometimes we need to use your Personal Data in order for you to use the Services.

Complain to a regulator. We'd appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns directly so we'd prefer you to contact us first.

The law provides exceptions to these rights in certain circumstances. Where you cannot exercise one of these rights due to such an exception, we will explain to you why.

Please note that if you decide not to provide us with the Personal Data that we request, you may not be able to access all of the features of the Services.

As a general rule, children are not allowed to use the Services, and we do not collect Personal Data from them. We define "children" as follows:.

Residents of the EEA: You may contact SuperAwesome directly at privacy superawesome. Verifiable parental consent is required for the collection, use, or disclosure of a child's Personal Data.

Niantic will not collect, use, or disclose any Personal Data from a child if their parent or guardian does not provide such consent. Parents will then be required to verify their identity through the Niantic Kids Parent Portal operated by SuperAwesome.

In order to perform that verification, SuperAwesome requires certain personal information about parents. Any such information is collected by SuperAwesome as a Third Party Service in accordance with their own Privacy Policy, which can be found at https: Once verified, a parent can consent to their child creating a user account and accessing the Service.

If we learn that we have collected Personal Data of a child, and we do not have parental consent, we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.

Any Personal Data that we collect is covered by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time.

You will be given reasonable notice of any material change. In using our Services you may access links to websites and services that are owned or operated by third parties each, a " Third Party Service ".